Constituency
268. Purbasthali Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-PURBASTHALI-DAKSHIN
AITC 52.8%won by 19.1%INC 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 19.1%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 88.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,24,266
Turnout
88.1%
Valid votes
1,97,543
Margin
37,666
19.07%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AITC- 1SWAPAN DEBNATHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,04,39852.8%
- 2ABHIJIT BHATTACHARYYAIndian National Congress · INC66,73233.8%
- 3RAJIB KUMAR BHOWMICKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,0039.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9161.0%
- 5NASIMUL GANI SAYEDPDS · PDS1,5550.8%
- 6JIYADUL SEIKHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3180.7%
- 7MANORANJAN BOLLBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2230.6%
- 8RAM HANSDAIndependent · IND7960.4%
- 9ABUL KALAM SEIKHIndependent · IND6020.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −30.7%
- AITC share
- 49.7% → 52.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 90.5% → 88.1%